The Premier ARTV Awards selected Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk out of thousands of applicants from the U.S.A., Canada and the U.K. as "Sculptor of The Year" ! The Awards will be broadcast nationaly in the U.S.A on BRAVO-TV Network, Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 8:00am!
Pictured below and at right is Mary Ann Thompson Frenk's first completed work of art titled, 'Melpomene & Thalia' after the theater muses of tragedy and comedy. Her husband, Joshua Frenk helped her to carry the 3 1/2 by 3 1/2 ft bronze sculpture tp her father's bedside during his last months fighting a brain tumor. Therefore this piece has great emotional significance.
Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk created this piece titled, "Kwan Yin & The Virgin Mary" because she recognized how similar the two figures are to each other. They are shown holding the Catholic Rosary and Buddhist Mala and hidden underneath are their respecitve flowers, Mary's Rose and Kwan Yin's Lotus.
Mary Ann titled this piece, "Spiritual Anatomy" because it depicts how the Buddhist/Hindu Chakras, the Judaic Kabbalah and the 7 Sacraments of Christianity are all recognizing the existance of the same essential truths. This piece stands at 7ft by 3 1/2 ft and holds natural crystals representing the energy centers of the human body.
“Multiverse Consciousness”: A Physical Postulation
A Sculptural Theorem based on the works of three great minds:
Michio Kaku’s “M-Theory” , “Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics”, & Teilhard De Chardon’s “Noosphere”
“I was one of the lucky people that got to hear Michio Kaku speak about the new M-theory (the updated String Theory) when I was in New York…what captured me most was his proposal of parallel worlds, the idea that we can exist in numerous dimensions at once in completely different realities where we made different decisions and had completely different outcomes to some of the same decisions. This got me to thinking, what if this is the science behind a kind of accelerated reincarnation? What if our soul spans universes and is simultaneously experiencing the different types of identities/selves? This would propose that the human soul is even larger that what has ever been imagined. Then, if Teilhard de Chardon’s “Noosphere” theory of global consciousness was true, it would simply be the first layer of connection between us, not the final layer, as a Noosphere would exist around each individual universe. Buckminster Fuller’s “Synergetics” would be what allows the human brain to physically “hook” into this Noosphere as modern neurology suggests in its studies of the human race’s increase of synapses…these ideas linked together so elegantly that I immediately began sketching it all out for a sculpture when I realized what I had drawn looked like a giant neuron connecting people via the crown chakra and made what the connection between different “selves” of an individual appear to function like synapses…so in essence, it virtually looks like we are part of the mind of God, which is what mystics have been telling us for years…but most dramatically, now that our physicists and cosmologists are discovering science enabling us to exists simultaneously in parallel worlds, Michio Kaku said they were despairing thinking how do we know which “Self” is real…but I wonder, why are our souls to be measured by only one body? Nature repeats itself…as an artist I have seen the same designs in several aspects of the universe. Why not ourselves? Why should we not be part of the pattern? I don’t find this possibility something to despair about…to me, it suggests an awesome connection with The Divine that is almost limitless in its scope. And of course any idea conceived by man is limited by man…but it is still in our nature to be curious, to desire communion with The Divine, and to explore…perhaps that is our greatest connection when taken with integrity!”
~ Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk~
